Transcultural Design China

In the middle of November, Nicolas Hubert, a 5th year student at the Chinese campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique has organised a workshop with 8 design students from Qingdao University.

The goal of this project was to observe the Chinese way of doing design while asking the students to create a new Mandarin writing machine. [Read more →]

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On  Monday the 19th of October, Seb-Supor R&D Center offered a design brief to 20 students of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique and the School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design.

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Nicolas Hubert, 5th year student at L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique in Qingdao won the « Best Student Award » at the 2009 Dalsouple international competition « Transform The Future ».
He presented his project “Pullover”, a clothe for trees meant to protect them from agressions in public places. [Read more →]

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The Chinese campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique is based on Qingdao University campus.

Qingdao University is a comprehensive university in Shandong Province, which was combined with the former Qingdao University, Shandong Textile Engineering Institute, Qingdao Medical College and Qingdao Teachers’ College in 1993. It comprises of 25 colleges and about 50000 students. [Read more →]

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4th year students just arrived in Qingdao where they will study design for 2 years. They happen to be 20 this year which is more than last year (14 students). They come from various backgrounds: Product design, Interior design and Interactive design.

They will leave soon to Shanghai and Beijing where they will do a 5 month-internship in their field. They will then come back to Qingdao for 2 more semesters: one filled with numerous design projects with companies like Haier, SEB-Supor and one dedicated to their personal final project.

We wish them good luck for this new year 2009. [Read more →]

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On Wednesday the 24th of June, the 4th year students of the Chinese programme of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique celebrated the end of the semester.
They will be back on the 31st of August to finish their diploma. [Read more →]

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Antoine Persyn, a 4th year student in the China based Master degree programme of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, created this beautiful « Iboga » lamp for the Shanghai Ecodesign Fair in April 2009.  Made out of bamboo wood, this lamp is meant to help people feel better at home like a medication. [Read more →]

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